“'Black Swan' international posters are as crazy awesome as the movie - Entertainment Weekly Online” plus 2 more |
- 'Black Swan' international posters are as crazy awesome as the movie - Entertainment Weekly Online
- Paranormal Activity 2 scares $41.5M out of movie fans - Toronto Star
- Natalie Portman's father 'upset' with her explicit sex scenes in new movie - New Kerala
| 'Black Swan' international posters are as crazy awesome as the movie - Entertainment Weekly Online Posted: 15 Oct 2010 08:34 PM PDT
I can't stress enough how much I looooooved Black Swan, PopWatchers. The film, which hits theaters on Dec. 3, is a complete tour de force in terms of directing, photography, and acting—it's a stunner. Natalie Portman is phenomenal as is Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder. The final 30 minutes of the movie are almost unbearably intense, but fly by like a fever dream. This is a movie people will be talking about. The less you know about its surprises the better. Check out the trailer below…
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| Paranormal Activity 2 scares $41.5M out of movie fans - Toronto Star Posted: 24 Oct 2010 02:54 PM PDT David Germain Associated Press LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Fear has taken hold at the box office with a US$41.5 million debut for scary movie Paranormal Activity 2, according to studio estimates Sunday. Paramount Pictures' follow-up to last year's micro-budgeted hit Paranormal Activity got a jump on Halloween as fans packed theatres for another documentary-style thriller about a household plagued by a menacing spirit. Paranormal Activity 2 did nearly half its business on Friday, following the pattern of many fright-flick franchises, which often draw big crowds on opening day then drop off sharply. The movie took in $20.1 million Friday, with receipts falling to $13 million Saturday and $8.4 million Sunday. The first Paranormal Activity rolled out gradually from city to city in a stealth-marketing campaign that built the buzz for the independently produced thriller that was shot for less than $15,000. By the time the movie went into nationwide release, it had turned into a horror sensation that went on to become a $100 million hit. The first movie came out of nowhere, and follow-up films to similar surprise smashes sometimes fall flat, such as The Blair Witch Project sequel. In its publicity campaign, Paramount tried to maintain an air of mystery around Paranormal Activity 2. "The challenge was to not make the mistake of some other movies of the past, and to treat it as its own very special entity. Even though we went wide with it, we tried to treat it a lot like the first one was treated from a publicity and marketing standpoint," said Don Harris, the studio's executive vice-president for distribution. Paramount also had the No. 2 movie with the stunt comedy Jackass 3-D which opened in first place the previous weekend. Jackass 3-D pulled in $21.6 million, down sharply from its $50 million opening. But the movie raised its 10-day total to $87.1 million, more than either of the earlier two Jackass movies took in during their entire runs. Summit Entertainment's action-comedy Red held up well from its No. 2 debut a weekend earlier, slipping to third with $15 million and lifting its 10-day total to $43.5 million. After opening Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon's Hereafter in limited release a week earlier, Warner Bros. expanded the supernatural drama nationwide, and the film came in at No. 4 with $12 million. That slightly exceeded the studio's expectations, yet like most Eastwood dramas, it was a modest start. His films play to older adults who do not rush out on opening weekend in the same numbers as young crowds. "Clint's movies these days are more of a marathon than they are a sprint, so we'll see how it plays out," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner. "I always tell Clint, 'Let's not talk about the first weekend. Let's talk about the third.' " Hereafter played well in bigger cities but delivered softer business in some parts of the South and Midwest. That could be a sign that Bible Belt areas were not as interested in Hereafter, which deals with the afterlife in secular fashion without bringing God or religion into the picture. The big opening for Paranormal Activity 2 sets up a rematch of last Halloween season, when the first Paranormal Activity dismembered an established horror franchise and Saw VI debuted weakly with the worst opening weekend in the series' history. Lionsgate went back to the drawing board for the seventh Saw movie, opening this Friday. Saw 3-D brings back Cary Elwes from the franchise's first movie and mixes other cast members from throughout the series, while trying to capitalize on fan appetite for flicks shot in 3-D. "This is a bigger, more powerful Saw, so to speak," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "It kind of primes up audiences for a major Halloween smackdown battle of the horror films, but I think Saw 3-D is going to be a much more formidable opponent." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Natalie Portman's father 'upset' with her explicit sex scenes in new movie - New Kerala Posted: 24 Oct 2010 02:08 AM PDT London, Oct 24 : Natalie Portman's relationship with her father is said to have become 'very frosty' over explicit sex scenes in her latest movie. The star's father Avner Hershlag is said to be unhappy with the scenes in psychological thriller Black Swan in which his daughter plays a lesbian ballerina. She has previously turned down roles, including Lolita, which she considered too explicit, but she was determined to take on the role of troubled prima ballerina Nina in 'Black Swan'. "Natalie is a very private and dignified person and is often influenced by her father's approval," the Daily Mail quoted a source as saying. "This, however, was one role she simply didn't want to turn down even though she knew it would upset her father. "He still sees her as his baby and always will and thinks showing herself like this is degrading. "Things are very frosty between them right now," the source added. --ANI This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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